{
  "id": 17519626,
  "title": "Atiku Condemns Attacks on Sokoto ADC governorship, AAC Presidential Candidate, Sowore",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/01/atiku-condemns-attacks-on-sokoto-adc-governorship-aac-presidential",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-11-01T02:32:41.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "This Day",
    "slug": "this-day",
    "url": "https://www.thisdaylive.com/2026/11/01/atiku-condemns-attacks-on-sokoto-adc-governorship-aac-presidential-candidate-sowore/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, the presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), has strongly condemned the attacks on the African Action Congress (AAC) presidential candidate, Omoyele Sowore, and the ADC governorship candidate, Manir Muhammad Dan'iya, in Sokoto State. In a statement, Atiku expressed his deep concern over the simultaneous assaults on both political figures. He stated that the attacks expose the ruling APC administration's intention to oppress and intimidate opposition leaders and their supporters. Atiku emphasized that these incidents are intolerable in a democracy and revealed the extreme measures taken by the Tinubu administration to crush the opposition. He called for immediate and transparent investigations into the attacks and vowed to resist any attempts to silence political opposition in Nigeria.",
  "summary": "Chuks Okocha in Abuja Former Vice President and the presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), Atiku Abubukar, has condemned the attacks on the presidential candidate of the African Action",
  "key_points": [],
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}